Improved device for sinking wells



TATES? EDWARD AsHDoWN. AND GEORGE W. eALP1N,-0E EOMER, NEW YORK, AssIGNoRs To THEMsELvEs AND SAMUEL HEROE AND PEMBROKE rumen, or sAME PLAGE.

iMPeovfED Device Foe summe WELLS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 5 Lt, dated December 5, 1865 antedated October 3l, i865.

To all. whom tmay concern Beit known that We, EDWARD ASHDOW-N and GEORGE W. GALPIN,0fHoiner,NeW York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements Fluids; and we d6 hereby declare that the following is a fnil, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of .reference marked thereon.

In the annexed drawing,makingpartof this specification, -A represents a metallictube,A which it is intended should be inserted into an opening or hole to bebored in the ground,

` through which water is to be drawn. The

upper end of this tube is provided with a male screw, which ts into a female screw in the" cap-piece B.

. At the upper end of the fenmle screw, within i the cap-piece B, is a shoulder, against which the end of the tube A fits when it is screwed -up snuglyto its place.

' G represents a metallic rod, which tits snugly within the tube A, and being made a little longer than said tube..

.D represents a polntedsocket, into4v which `the lower end of the tube A ts,'the end ofthe tubefitting against a' shoulder in the said socket. The rod'C ts against the cap B at .its top, and at its lower end against the bottoni of the opening in the socket D.

The tube'A is provided. with holes in its periphery just abo-ve the socket Din order to allow `water to enter it.

To use thiswell an opening hole is made in the ground byaneans of the tube and auger represented in the drawing.' The end of the pointed socket D is placed in the hole thus lnade, and by striking u'pon the cap-piece the 4tube is ibrced'down to the required depth.

what we claim as new, and desire to secure. by

Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement' of the tube A, cap-piece B, rod C, and socket D, used in the manner Aand for the purpose herein set forth.

, EDWARD A snDoWN.

GEORGE W. GALPIN. .Y

Witnesses L. M. WORDEN,- S. Z. MINEE. 

